Method of producing doll eyes



July 1, 1930. A.KONOFF 1,769,582

METHOD OF PREJDUGING DOLL EY ES Filed oct. 12, 1927 INVENTOR.

E F R B AEEXANDER Koivorr, or NEW omc, N. Y., ASSIGNORTO MARKGN- MA UFACTURING CO. INC, OE-NEW YQRK, Y., A CQBPOBATION -O E;NEW YORK iirnrnon or riaonuorite noLL yes Application meet October 12, 19275 SeriaI'No. 225,623;

This invent-ion relates tojan improvement in doll eyes, particularly to the end that the eyelichtoriiiing portion of the eye, as well as the eyelashes carried by the eye shall bear ft ion of the eyelid will suitably conrorm to such relation to the eye opening of thefdoll head as, to presenta highly human-like and pleasingappearance.

the curvature of the eyeopening of the head, also that an eyelash member attached at and extending. along the edge of the eyelid-forming portion will likewise conform in general shape andcontourto the'adjacent'curved edge of the head opening.

A further object'is to provide amultiple blank from; which the eyes are to. formed L and to so color parts ofthe blank that when the eyes are shaped up therefrom the eyelidiorming portion will-have a lower edge contour as abpvefmentioned.

IOt her'objects and aiins'oi the invention,

' more or less specific than those referred-to "above, 'will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the cour e of the following dei 'scription of .the elements, combinations, ar-

rangem'ents of parts; and applications of principles constituting the invention; and thescope of protection contemplated will be indicated in the appended claims.

to be taken as a part of this specification, and in which I have shown merely a preferred form of embodiment of the invention Fig. 1 is affront elevational View of a doll eye constructed in vention.

F 1g; 2 1s a side elevatlonal View of they andsit therefore apar p pose of the present invention to so design structure seen in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to that seenin Fig. 1, the eye being here shown however as.

looking directly forwardly, rather than diagonally downwardly as. in the previous; figures, and be ng shown in association withaccordance with this intiple blank from which the eyes are to be cut and shaped up. I 1

Referring to the drawings for describing in detail the structure illustrated therein, the

reference character L indicates the eye/"body this being usually, though not necessarily,-1n

the form of a hollow shell of sheet material, v such as celluloid, sheet metal or the like. It

might in'seme instancesbe made of glass, or be ofsolid molded or other appropriate ma terial.

At a proper locality visible upon the outer surface of; theeye'is the iris G, and above the irisis the eyelid-forming portion H.

The eyelid-forming portion H' may consist merelyv of color painted, printed, or other:

wise applied to the material of the bodyL, or it may consist ofa separate piece of sheet material attached to or arranged as a continuation of the body. -It-is of flesh color proximating the color of the outer surface of the oll head, whereas the surface portion of the body below the lowerxedge of the eyelid, outside of the iris, is of an appropriately whitish 0r to representthe white rti ot the human eye;v 7 I tion of adoll head having the eye opening as 2 thereth-rou'gh, the eye. L being 'visible thro'ugh'said opening,'in'the usual manner.

The opening 2 maybe of any desired shape I suitably corresponding to the eye opening in human'head', 1t being however formed with In the accompanying drawings which are an upwardly curved upper edge wall as 3 ble the human eye in'appearance and operation the lower edge ast of the eyelid'should closely proximate the curvature of the edge head opening.

Tje V importance of-- this improvement,

v from apractical and artistic standpoint, is

most apparentin eye structures which carry Theqreference character lindicates a poreyelashes'thereon to move with the eye into and out ofopen position; In the drawing therefore the eye is shownto be provided 7 o portions of Itheeye, said'eyela-sli forming V '10, a l i along-the curved l ne defined by the edge of p the eyelid asabovedescribed, and thus makping'the eyelash member ltO' come into subwithjan eyelash-forming partor member 5 1 arranged to extend along the lower edge 4 of .;the eyelid and; to thus: prominently define said. edge'andeiieotively separate-the eyelid portionof the eye from the irisfand white memberbeing thusof course made to extend stantial contact throughout its length with the eclge surface ofthe wall 3 of thehead opening when the eye is open. A wide-open,

1, lite-like, pleasing and attractive appearance is thuspresented, as compared with the half ,closed dull and "listless appearance present in dolls as heretofore? manufactured where --the longitudinal curvature of the eyelash member isonaless radius than the curvature fof'the upperwall of the head opening.

I The eyelash member 5 may be connected iwith the body L1 in{ any appropriate manner,

but for the purposeof. illustration is shown 1 p to be attached by being inserted'within a slot -or. slit as 6 provided in the eye shell, after the manner shown andzdescri-bed in' the pending applicationoi- Alexander Konofl', Serial i 1 No; 148,135, the; slot or slit fi being at the lower edge of; the eyelid-forming portion H an'dfextendingin the same curved dlIGClDlOIl [as said lower edge so astosep'aratethe eyelidforming portion from theiris and whiteporctio-nsof-theeye'. i In instances {where the eye as hereinabove term the coloring of the] material is pr'eferably done before, the material 1S shapedv up "into its-spherical or semisphericaliform, as

' forinstance by printing orlithographing in to I circle as 7 within which ispriritedr theiris,

F the upperpart of the surface expanse wlth'ln V p the circle being coloredto represent the eyelid portion H 'andthe lower part conta ning the iris and being otherwise of a whitish or otherwise, and the curvature of said line is such that when the blank is shaped up in its final semispherical form said curvature will correspond with the curvature of the wall 3 of the head opening.

u It will be understood that the eye may be mounted in any suitable'manner within the and closedposition, the drawing indicating 'for this 'purpose a suitable cross red as 11 upon which two eyes may be mounted, and

said rod being attached to the head by an appropriate bracket as 12.

.As many changes could be made in this construction without departing from the scopefof the invention, as defined in the fol- Ilowing'claim, it is" intended that all matter contained in the above description, or shown in the accompanying drawings, shall be in-;

terpreted as illustrative only and not in a limiting sense. r c

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure byLetters 'Patent is I .f

- The herein described method of producing doll head for oscillatory movement into open 7 an artificial eye ball for use within the eye" opening of a doll head, and having an eye lid simulating portion the lower edge of which will register in curvature with the" upper edge of the eye opening of the head, which method consists in providing a sub stantially flat sheet of material pressable into eye ball form, providingthe representation of an iris upon said sheet, providing upon "said sheet the representation of the white of an eyeadj acent said iris, providingralso upon the sheet .the representation of an. eye .lid

havingits lower edge curved above the iris upon a curvaturewhmhas d fferent from the curvature of the upperiedgewall of the eye opening ofthe doll head, andthen pressing the sheet to bring it into eye ball form and to at'the same time change the curvature of the lower "edge of the eyelid to correspond with the curvatureof'the upper edge of the eye opening ofthe dollhead.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature;

" ALEXANDER KONOFF.

' color'toyrepresent the white portion as18 of i y -th e eye. The line, of division5between the portiQnsII-I, and SeXtends straightacross the V fcentrallportion is' curved upwardly about 'circleirom' oppositesides as at 9-9 but its Y the iris as at 10. This line willdefine in the completed :eye the lower edge of the eyee .lid'. gAn eye lash-member as5 may be atftac-hedalong saidli ne, as by means ofa slot 

